Systems of law: Islamic law

This book discusses court-oriented legal reforms across Asia with a focus on the creation of 'new courts' over the last 20 years.

This volume, originally published in 1925, outlines the historical development of the Muslim law of inheritance in pre-Islamic Law.

This volume, originally published in 1925, outlines the historical development of the Muslim law of inheritance in pre-Islamic Law.

Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws.

Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws.

Islam is a growing presence practically everywhere in Europe.

Islam is a growing presence practically everywhere in Europe.

This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances.

This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances.

In many parts of Africa three different systems of laws are concurrently applied - the imported "e;Colonial"e; law, the indigenous customary law and Islamic law.

In many parts of Africa three different systems of laws are concurrently applied - the imported "e;Colonial"e; law, the indigenous customary law and Islamic law.

Few studies exist which deal with Islamic law in practice, and this is among the first such studies in the English language for Islamic Africa.

Few studies exist which deal with Islamic law in practice, and this is among the first such studies in the English language for Islamic Africa.

The Hanbali School of Law and Ibn Taymiyyah provides a valuable account of the development of Hanbalite jurisprudence, placing the theoretical and conceptual parameters of this tradition within the grasp of the interested reader.

The Hanbali School of Law and Ibn Taymiyyah provides a valuable account of the development of Hanbalite jurisprudence, placing the theoretical and conceptual parameters of this tradition within the grasp of the interested reader.

Original Islam investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik ibn Anas.

Original Islam investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik ibn Anas.

This is a new examination of how Shari'a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law.

This is a new examination of how Shari'a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law.

The question of how Islamic law regulates the notions of just recourse to and just conduct in war has long been the topic of heated controversy, and is often subject to oversimplification in scholarship and journalism.

The question of how Islamic law regulates the notions of just recourse to and just conduct in war has long been the topic of heated controversy, and is often subject to oversimplification in scholarship and journalism.

This book examines Islam and women's everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy.

This book examines Islam and women's everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy.

British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians.

British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians.

A very accessible and concise guide to Islamic finance Contracts and Deals in Islamic Finance provides a clear breakdown of Islamic financial contracts and deal structures for beginners.

A very accessible and concise guide to Islamic finance Contracts and Deals in Islamic Finance provides a clear breakdown of Islamic financial contracts and deal structures for beginners.

Can Islamic finance save the global system?

Can Islamic finance save the global system?

A concise study of the practices in Islamic commercial law Filling a gap in the current literature, Islamic Commercial Law is the only book available that combines the theory and practice of Islamic commercial law in an English-language text.

A concise study of the practices in Islamic commercial law Filling a gap in the current literature, Islamic Commercial Law is the only book available that combines the theory and practice of Islamic commercial law in an English-language text.

Shari''a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari''a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.

Shari''a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari''a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.

Dupret explores how the concept of positive law operated in the Muslim world.

Dupret explores how the concept of positive law operated in the Muslim world.

Examines a complex global legal problem to demonstrate a compelling method for comparative legal, cultural, and social understanding.

This book advances a constructive theological approach to the controversial issues of sharī''a, public law, and secularism in Christian-Muslim relations.

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

Illustrates the origin and ways of Western hegemony over other civilizations across the world.

Explores single men and women in the Roman world, their ways of life and their reasons for remaining unmarried.

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

Asks and answers the hardest questions about the relationship between British Islam and English law using classical pluralist theory.

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

Illustrates the origin and ways of Western hegemony over other civilizations across the world.

Constituting Religion examines how constitutional provisions for both Islam and liberal rights catalyze conflicts over religion in Malaysia and feed a ''rights-versus-rites'' binary.

Constituting Religion examines how constitutional provisions for both Islam and liberal rights catalyze conflicts over religion in Malaysia and feed a ''rights-versus-rites'' binary.

This book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women''s organisations in northern India.

Shows that the shari''a and Islamic law are compatible with contemporary international human rights laws and norms, and appropriate for use in Muslim societies.